The Metropolitan Police Department arrested a man Friday at the D.C. Central Detention Facility whom they accuse of killing a 7-month-old baby in 2023.
Dion Phelps, 29, is accused of killing King Phelps on March 16 three years ago. The Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the District of Columbia determined that King died from blunt force trauma in an act of homicide, the police said.
Phelps was already in jail on separate charges of burglary, robbery and destruction of property worth less than $1,000, according to Superior Court of the District of Columbia records. He pleaded guilty in September and is due to be sentenced on those charges on Nov. 16.
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The police did not specify the relation between the elder Phelps and King, but the baby was his son, according to Washington’s WUSA.
The new charges against Phelps include first-degree murder, per the police release, as well as two counts of first-degree cruelty to children, two counts of simple assault and one count of threatening to kidnap or injure a person, according to Superior Court of the District of Columbia records.
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